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Shelving. The W.F.T.U. issue also gave Texas Senator Tom Connally a chance to pound the table. He cried that if W.F.T.U. were admitted, UNO would have to take in all sorts of special-purpose groups-even of women. Turning to a Syrian delegate nearby, he shouted: "Would you like to have women in here dictating to us what to do?" The Syrian, caught off guard, replied with a startled "No." Flushed with triumph, Connally kept on pounding. Gromyko whispered to his neighbor, "I hope they have reinforced the table." The W.F.T.U. application was shelved...
Staying? In its third week, UNO was already a town meeting of the world. This was largely due to U.S. insistence at San Francisco that the Big Power veto could not shut off discussion. UNO was already the focal point for issues that disturbed the world's peace-despite Russia's blunt insistence fortnight ago that nothing except the Big Three really mattered. Hope rose last week in London that it might grow from a forum to a town meeting in the effective New England sense...
...UNO's 51 members all send delegations to the General Assembly; whatever the delegation's size, each nation has only one vote. Each of the eleven nations on the Security Council chooses one member of its UNO delegation to represent it there...
...Acting War Shipping Administrator Captain Granville Conway (successor to Vice Admiral Emory S. Land), the U.S. will propose a modified UMA for six months after March 2, hopes it will lead to a permanent shipping agency under UNO...
Last week the realistic Paris Municipal Commission of Fine Arts took a quick look at history, the daily papers, and UNO, decided that replicas of the destroyed statuary should be made in stone, to thwart future pillagers...